The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| AC1WG-C0MKISSIONE SToCKSLAGER mas
issued the necessary instructions to the
local land officials to carry into effect
Secretary Lamar's recent order restoring
to settlement the indemnity lands OF the
| Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 1t
is estimated that nearly 100000 acres are
| involved.
| A FAMILY of six persons were burned to
death in a tenement house in New Orleans
on the 10Th.
A WRECK on the Mexican Central rail-
road on the 10th caused the death of the
engineer, named Cook.
MRS. MEIKLEHAM, granddaughter of
Thomas jefferson, died on the evening OF
the 10Th, at Washington, D. G.
CovEToUs eyes are being turned toward
Holland in anticipation of the death OF the
aged and in6rm King William.
A RAILROAD accident occurred on the
18th on the Midland railroad in England
by which twenty-four persons were killed
and seventy injured.
THE Texas Farmers Alliance has pur-
chased Marble Falls, on the Colorado
river, and will erect $780, 900 cotton mill.
SEVERAL flremen were injured at fire
in Chicago on the 10th.
The President Is said to have given
strong intlmation that Secretary Lamar is
to be appointed to the Supreme bench.
1T is thought now that Major Couslns'
successor as marshal of the Eastern dis
trict Of Missouri will not be appointed I'M
til the pending election cases are all tried.
A. A. WHITEHoUsE, while hunting near
Denver, Col, on the 10th, shot at what he
thought was game and killed his friend,
George II. Gordon.
JUDGE HALL, of the United States Dis
trict Court for the district of Colorado,
has rendered an important decision on
railroad rights to timber on public lands.
In the grand military parade in Phila-
delphia on the 10th, in honor Of the Con-
stitutional centennial there were the fol.
lowing United States troops, 800; Della
ware, one full regiment; Pennsylvania,
three brigades, about 5000 men; New
Jersey, 1900; Georgia, 50; Connecticut.
100; Massachusetts, 1900; Maryland, l.
900; South Carolina, 100; New Hampshire,
1907 Virginia, 300; New York, 5000;
North Carolina, so; Rhode Island, 200;
Ohio, one full regiment; Maine, 400; West
Virginia, 200; Iowa, 80; District Of Colum-
bia, 800; Grand Army, 1000; making,
with their bands and others, nearly 10000.
DURING the military parade in Philadel-
phia on the 10Th, and when the Grand
Army of the Republic contingent came
in sight, Mrs. Cleveland, with
wife, Mr.. Drexel and others who
were with her, retired from her position on
a balcony Of the Hotel Lafayette, remain
ing absent during the time the veterans
were passing, causing much regretful com
ment.
KEY WEST, Fla, is intensely alarmed
over the presence of Spanish gunboats and
Cuban tilibuster movements.
A CABLE dispatch of the 10Th says that
the Governor of Western Australia has
suspended the Chief Justice of the colony,
Hon. Alexander Campbell Onslow.
THE next session of the Supreme Legion,
A. o. U. W., will be held in Kansas City,
Mo-, on the third Tuesday of August,
1883.
THE lower level of the Luke Fidler
csliiery at Shamokin, Pa, took fire on the
18th. Mine Boss Bryan Denman ann Az
sistant Matt Framan are imprisoned in the
mine and can not be reached on account oil
gas and smoke.
AT conference of Scottish home-rulers
on the 10th, Findlater, president of the
Scottish Farmers Alliance, advocated
home rule for Scotland. He openly de
clared that the northern and eastern coun
ties of Scotland are ripe for it,
FRANK w. MAXoN, a wealthy stock
breeder of the town of Walworth, Wis.
was gored to death on the evening of the
18th by blooded bull which he was lead
ing to water. He was literally torn t,
pieces. Deceased was sixty years of ag,
and leaves a wife.
DR., CARVER, the rifle champion, brok,
100 glass balls in two minutes and fifteeI
seconds at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 10th
beating all former records. He also brok
} 200 balls in four minutes and forty leigh
seconds.
THOMAS H. YOUNG and wife, colored
) have sued the proprietor of the Ebbit
} House, Washington, for $500, chargin,
discrimination on account of color.
THE rumor that the Eau Claire Lumber
Company, Of Minneapolis, Mimi, has soil
out is confirmed. The company's snw-mil
, and other property at Eau Claire AM
= Standing Pine, on the Eau Claire river
|
: bought by the Mississippi Logging Com
: pany. The consideration was $1,000, 900.
Roscoe CoSKLING was among the pail
bearers at the funeral Of Captain Michae
4 Cregan in New York, on the 10th. ANON
}. the other pall-bearers were Police Jus
s tice Kelly, Bernard Biglin, Robert Nc
). Cord and John J. O'Brien. Ex-Governo
| Cornell, Dwight Lawrence, ex-Senato
Q Brodsky, General John O'Bierne, Jaco
q Hess, ex-Congressman Stewart and man
other friends of the deceased were ais
present.
S REAR ADMIRAL J. r. MADISON NULL
u NEY, U. S. n, died on the 18th at Bry
l. Mawr, Pa. aged seventy years. He la
e been on the retired list since 1879.
IL Hon. JOSEPH CILLEY, the oldest e1
o United States Senator and veteran c
p the war of 1912, died at Nottingham, n. II
on the 18th, in his ninety-sixth year.
,. MARK SKINNER, who, as president of th
n Sanitary Commission, during the war {
r. the rebellion, distributed s., O00, 900 to sic
n and wounded soldiers, died at Manche